Sgt. Slaughter Says the WWE Is Not Using Daniel Bryan or Dolph Ziggler Correctly

WWE Hall of Famer Sgt. Slaughter says the WWE is not using Daniel Bryan or Dolph Ziggler correctly. In a recent interview held with Arda Ocal of the Baltimore Sun‘s “Ring Post Blog,” Slaughter discusses being a talent scout for the WWE, how he was instrumental in bringing the Undertaker and Bryan to the company, and how talent such as Bryan and Ziggler are not being used to their full potential.

Slaughter, real name Robert Remus, said the following on Bryan and Ziggler and how they are being used by the WWE,

“I don’t think he’s being treated fairly. [The people at WWE] are making him work awfully hard to be successful and he’s not letting them down. He’s working harder than ever. He’s like a giant slayer. He takes on the biggest and the best. Kind of like Dolph Ziggler — he’s another talent I thought he wasn’t being used right, and I brought it up in several production meetings that they shouldn’t do his character as they were. It takes time. You can’t do it for everybody.”

Slaughter also talks about discovering The Undertaker, Mark Calaway, for the company,

“One of my all time favorites is The Undertaker, who was in a box of tapes when I was working in the office up in Conneticut. Part of my job was to go through the boxes of letters and resumes. One of them happened to be a young kid by he name of Mark Calaway, who has short red hair and he was working down in WCW. It was a tape and a little letter saying he’d be interested.

At the time, he was in a tag team. I remember on a Saturday I went to Vince McMahon’s office and I said I got this guy you should give a tryout to and Vince said he trusted me. WWE brought him into Rochester, N.Y. I showed Mark where to go, [said], ‘You’ll be the first match on the show.’ Halfway through the match, I was on head set and I hear Vince McMahon say ‘Where did you find this guy? Send him to my office.’ Mark came out of the ring and asked me how he did, and I said Vince wanted to see him. He thought he did something wrong.

We would have meetings after shows to talk about what happened and plan things out creatively. The topic turned to Mark and Vince said he had an idea for a character name and he brought up the name Paul Bearer. The next day I went to Vince and I said I didn’t really care for that name for Mark in particular. I thought he looked different than that, and Vince said ‘like an Undertaker?’ and I said yeah! Maybe we should do Paul Bearer as his manager.”